25....................things to live by

1. dont tell me, show me
2. excuses are not reasons
3. happiness is a choice
4. settling is never good enough
5. the one who knows the most is always listening
6. explanations are for problems
7. the higher expectations get the hard they let you fall
8. love is never same from both sides
9. its never to late to start
10.life is too short to make more than one person happy
11.smiles are warm
12.a forced kiss is a curse
13.true love is instant
14.anything that grows can die
15.perfection is relevant
16.never share your game book or trade secrets
17.everything is important, it just might not be to you
18.the world isnt smaller than it used to be, there is just less in it
19.childhood is the kingdom where no one dies
20.maturity and age dont know each other
21.people not believing in fairy tales will be the end of the world
22.you have to be lost to find your way
23.lessons learned come from failure
24.the people we choice to be around know us best
25.knowing what you want and being hard to please are not the same

I will add more as they pop in my little head..................and yes i honestly believe every one of these!

why cant i sleep?

its 3:47am....I cant sleep at all!!

I have been to every barrel racing and barrel racer's website I know just trying to make myself tired.

I want to sleep...Im just not tired.

How long do Rockstars last? I drank a huge one one the way to OK earlier, but that was at 2 or 3 pm.

Oh yeah I found a new house in Wynnewood, Ok. 2 houses...3 loafing sheds...40 acres....huge show barn with 7 stalls, 4 stall shed row, walker, big area in the back which i might put a rd pen in the barn, etc, etc. Will more than likely be under contract, sold or hit my a comet before Sat or Monday when I plan on taking blw back up there. Yes I have already been to see it. Andi and i went today. Its awesome.

And I drowned my phone in the toilet. Damn It. Maybe blw will buy me an IPhone. He of course will assume the blackberry's drowning was premeditated.

youtube

how do you copy videos from youtube to your computer?

House in Seymour, Texas

I am in love with a place in Seymour, Texas...

4o acres, but you get to used 20 more, so really like 60
4 stalls
20 by 16 tack room
4 horse hot walker
125 round pen
100 by 100 cutting pen
bunches of holding pens but the hunter/jumper in me wants to to call them paddocks
little storage building with 2 stalls on it but i decided blw can have that for the fire station, nice of me, i know
a cute little 3 bedroom house
only 1 bath but i figure by the time it matters we will have added on or built a new one
oh, the best part a covered pen 100 by 180

I went and looked at it last week. I thought I would get up there and not like it. I was wrong I love it. Except the carpet and the blue tub. The house is really cute but needs the jill touch. Then drove to where my husband works so I would know how far it was. The drive took 2 and half hours; he would have to make it every 3 days. We are going to look at it tomorrow. I am super excited.

Ill let you know tomorrow what blw thinks......................

Boston is the best cat!!

BLW and i have an on going debate to which cat is the best. Because we have 5 inside cats and 1 outside cat the debate will likely be going on awhile...

I always side with Boston the long haired white cat with the awesome blue eyes. He purrs no matter how you hold him. He is the only cat we have that comes when you call him. He is the boss cat. He is always starting fights with the other cats. And tonight he caught a mouse. I got out the bath, walked into our room and over in the corner ( that you usually cant see but we have nothing in our house right now because of the fire) is Boston playing with a mouse. Blw wouldnt help me get the mouse. So i tried to get boston to put it in the trash can i was holding, with no luck, all the while blw is laughing his butt off. blw finally put boston outside to finish playing with the mouse and hopefully kill it.

Brandon likes hugs the best because she stays to herself. He likes spook second she is the same way. Then dc and kisses. then boston. Cat of course is his favorite but even cat haters love Cat. I call him Samson.

I like boston, then dc, kisses, spook and last and least hugs. Cat/samson is in a class of his own with me. Hugs is a snobby bitch and she wont let me pet her. I should have left her ass in the vet clinic.

Yes it is 5 now inside. On Nov 1 a black, bright orange and white cat showed up. I name her Spook. She is a super sweet but has some issues from being a stray. She was getting in the trash at all hours of the day, then just at night and not at all lately. She was guarding the food which is always full all the time but that has stopped. Guess she has started to trusted that there will always be food at the top of the cat tree.

Very Shity Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday...I felt like a complete loser after the barrel race on Sat. Beau turn back over his self on the 2nd for a big NT. And, the ground was so bad that I loped Poncho thru, so he would not fall down. Oh and my husband work a over time this day too. I am restless when he is not around. My mind is foggy in is absence.

Monday...I don't really remember

Tuesday...I spent like a gazillion dollars!! I bought x-mas presents $600 at mooremaker and $400 at mary kay with Debbie. I paid off the vet about $2000. I bought another horse only $450.

Wednesday...Me and Blw ran over Bloomer bruising a lung and hurting him on the inside but nothing broken. He stayed the night at the vet. I spend $500 getting the rest of our animals fixed. I had a really hard time not being mad at everyone, which is like I always am before I start and I think my life sucks and I am really sad. Anyway, its always like that but I am learning to deal with it.

Thursday...Me and Brandon got into a huge fight over nothing. Fighting with him always sucks because we do it so rarely. Then at Collinsville I hit the second barrel on both my horses.

Friday...I get up with plans on during lots of errands. I drive to Paradise where I buy my supplements and blw car is out of gas. I pull into the gas station only to find out our account is over drawn. In short I had no money to get gas, so I try to drive home. Running out of gas a few miles from home. So now Im broke and stranded.

Saturday...I started my period so i was dying from my cramps till my pain pills kicked in. I then got up and fed my horses. blw mom brought her grand kids over to my petting zoo. They went home and I decided for lunch, I would cook some fries. I put the oil in the pan. Then went to the bathroom to turn my straighter on so I could fix my hair to go see Brandon, since he was working overtime again. I got distracted with my new hair extensions. I finally remember lunch and when I walk out of my bed room I see flames shooting out around the kitchen wall. I called the fire dept. I then open the front door so all the kids(animals) could go outside and rolled the ferret cage out side. I was looking for a fire extinguisher while calling blw. He reminded me that I should use DUH the water hose outside the back door. I put the fire out then soaked the the wood so it wouldn't catch anything else on fire. The fire dept finally got there and checked everything out. They all gave me shit because blw teaches classes all over the country and is a captain and I set the house on fire.

Hopefully the stars are better aligned for rest of the year. I have a little over an hour to go and this week will be over. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paris is retired to the broodmare pasture

I ran Paris a Collinsville, Zaal Ranch. She had a smoking first barrel. I got her pasted the second and she tried to run to the alley, again. This problem is totally mental. She does it no matter what on the second barrel. You can run her left or right and she blows back to the alley leaving the second. I have seen horses do this before...They run good a few times, then blow off the second. I think this has little to do with soundness. I'm done. Brandon says he is done wasting money on her. She mentally wears me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do you do with horses like her? I might have a friend who will rope off her. I might still start her over fences, but I don't know if her front legs will hold up. Plus, Im really busy with all my barrel horses. She is sound, and who cares if she isn't she should at least try. I'm just tired of being embarrassed. I have never had a horse like her. I love her personality; she is super sweet and funny. Both, things she was not when I bought her, she was a drag. Maybe she doesn't want to be a barrel horse. So, anyway she is "just" a broodmare, now. I will be breeding her to Versace(Dapper Dan Man) in 2009. I think they will have a super pretty, well built, talented baby.

We will be breeding all our mares to Versace next year. Gucci, Doodles, Ruby and Paris.......I already have names picked out. Gucci...IPH FASHION LABEL, Paris...IPH ANGELOUS, Doodles...IPH CHARMING MAN or IPH RICH N CHARMING, Ruby...IPH DARLING MAN or IPH DANS GIRL. No barn names yet....Coming soon.